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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2013
Shrikar Chakravarti, East Amherst, NY (US);
Minish M. Shah, East Amherst, NY (US);
Raymond Francis Drnevich, Clarence Center, NY (US);
Wladimir Y. Sarmiento-darkin, Amherst, NY (US);
Brian R. Kromer, Buffalo, NY (US);
Sean M. Kelly, Pittsford, NY (US);
Shrikar Chakravarti, East Amherst, NY (US);
Minish M. Shah, East Amherst, NY (US);
Raymond Francis Drnevich, Clarence Center, NY (US);
Wladimir Y. Sarmiento-Darkin, Amherst, NY (US);
Brian R. Kromer, Buffalo, NY (US);
Sean M. Kelly, Pittsford, NY (US);
PRAXAIR TECHNOLOGY, INC., Danbury, CT (US);
Abstract
A method and system for producing methanol that employs both an oxygen transport membrane (OTM) based reforming system together with a more traditional steam methane reforming (SMR) and/or autothermal (ATR) synthesis gas production system is disclosed. The dual mode system and method for producing the synthesis gas in a methanol production process optimizes the efficiency and productivity of the methanol plant by using the OTM based reforming system as an independent source of synthesis gas. The disclosed methods and systems are configurable either as a retrofit to existing methanol production facilities or as an integrated package into newly constructed methanol production facilities.